Word: stared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...office in the Department of the Interior, stoop-shouldered, intense little John Collier shuffled through a neat stack of papers, stopped occasionally to stare at a corncob pipe in an empty water glass on his desk. In his baggy old long-sleeved green sweater, he looked like a country storekeeper closing out the week's accounts. Actually, he was closing out twelve years with the Government...
...ballet or opera openings with the William Rhinelander Stewarts, the Orson Munns, Prince Serge Obolensky, the Averell Harrimans, Sonny Whitney. Once a weekend at San Simeon lasted six weeks because the old man could not bear to let her go. From the bed she slept in, she could stare at a painting on the ceiling and listen to the lion roar in the private...
...another example, is a shy, eager, gifted girl who last year underwent the alarming experience of being rocketed to stardom almost overnight by her performance in The Song of Bernadette. Jennifer was confused and frightened by the fuss made over her. From now on, she realized, people would stare at her, expect something of her. She lacked confidence; she did not dress well; she did not know how to give a party. She did not know how to be photographed, how to make herself up, what dresses to buy, how to talk casually with people, how to hold herself...
...ward with 29 other similarly wounded men, the newcomer is first allowed to do as he pleases: sleep, stare at the ceiling, or think. As soon as he comes out of the medical and surgical woods, pressure is gradually put on him to rouse his interest in the Surgeon General's Reconditioning Program. This program schedules every hour that a man is not eating, sleeping or undergoing treatment. It aims to build up his strength and keep him cheerful through physical and mental exercises. Though few have much interest to start with, all eventually take part with good grace...
...CAMPAIGN (See Cover) For the next three weeks Tom Dewey, the challenger, will be under the intensest public scrutiny any American can undergo. Millions of Americans will stare at him or his pictures, will listen to and study his words, and read what hundreds of reporters write about...